Quotes About Values

The world's going a little berserk. Too much greed and not enough good sense.

my recommendation is that you also create a private life strong in ethics, rich with marvelous beauty and unyielding when it comes to the protection of your inner peace.

Old violence is not too old to beget new values.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

Every organization has a culture, which either works for you or against you—and

Never yield to pressure, only to principle.

Having a bottom line makes it easier to resist pressure and temptations of the moment.

Kitsch lives with one foot in the realm of aesthetics and another foot in the realm of ethics.

Social traditions exist because they enable a society to reproduce itself. Destroy them heedlessly and you remove the guarantee offered by one generation to the next.

I believed that 'freedom' is not a clear or sufficient answer to the question of what conservatives believe in. Like Matthew Arnold, I held that 'freedom is a very good horse to ride, but to ride somewhere'.

Once we start to celebrate ugliness, we become ugly to.

We've got to stand up not only for free speech, but also for all that we've inherited from the Enlightenment and from Christianity.

People discovered, in their personal lives, that civil society is not goal-directed. It comes into being, in whatever circumstances, as an end in itself, a form of life that is appreciated for what it is, not for what it does.

Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many conservatives have failed to take seriously the many abuses to which property is subject. Libertarian

I shared his love of the countryside and of the old ways of building; I believed, as he did, that the modernist styles of architecture that were desecrating our town were also destroying its social fabric; and I saw, for the first time in my life, that it is always right to conserve things, when worse things are proposed in their place. That a priori law of practical reason is also the truth in conservatism.

The ease with which large producers can transfer their costs is the glaring abuse through which the market – otherwise one of the core values of conservatism – condemns itself.

the growing materialism of our societies. This materialism informs political discourse at every level, making wealth and its distribution the only issue that is discussed for long. As a result, people think of conservatism merely as a form of complacency towards the current system of material rewards, which has nothing whatever to say about the things that 'money can't buy', or about the effect of the consumer society on our deeper values. Yet

To offer toleration to those gripped by animosity to your way of life is to open the door to destruction. An elaborate lit review, more the history of conservatism.

Beneath every society where self-interest pays off, lies a foundation of self-sacrifice.

Something new seems to be at work in the contemporary world - a process that is eating away the very heart of social life, not merely by putting salesmanship in place of moral virtue, but by putting everything - virtue included - on sale.

It seems to me, therefore, that you should prepare your children to be happy in the way that you are happy. Treat them exactly as you would if your own ideals were generally shared. After all, your ideals, like your children, define you: between them, they are all that you have.

The dead and the unborn make their presence known through traditions, institutions, and laws.

Conservatives believe in unchosen obligations (pieties), whereas classical liberals think that the only source of obligation is choice.